Mathematics. Science. Social Studies. World Language. Educade :: Find, create and share lesson plans and teaching tools to empower your classroom. Library Of Congress Unveils Massive Common Core Resource Center. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is here and teachers are trying to figure out how to best integrate it into their tried-and-true lessons. They’re struggling to integrate technology to best augment CCSS. They are in desperate need of classroom materials that they can trust. Like a superhero, the U.S. Library of Congress has just swooped in and unveiled an enormous new (and free!) Common Core Resources You can now do a ‘Search By Standards‘ query which lets you do exactly that.
Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations. Professional Development Tools There are professional development tools that are sorted by grade level, ease of use, and written in plain English. Classroom Materials Created by teachers for teachers, these ready-to-use materials provide easy ways to incorporate the Library’s unparalleled primary sources into instruction.
Learn More. Teacher Resources. The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations. Discover and discuss ways to bring the power of Library of Congress primary sources into the classroom. Go to the blog Subscribe to the blog via e-mail or RSS. Using Primary Sources Discover quick and easy ways to begin using primary sources in your classroom, with teachers' guides, information on citing sources and copyright, and the Library's primary source analysis tool. TPS Partners The Teaching with Primary Sources Program builds partnerships with educational organizations to support effective instruction using primary sources. The Teaching with Primary Sources Journal.
Web Literacy: Where the Common Core Meets Common Sense. Are you as worried as we are that the overall impact of technology on our children’s ability to solve complex research problems is negative? Have you heard a child near you say, “Just Google it,” when asked to describe the meaning of life? Research shows that students primarily use one search engine and then only look at the first page of results. They can quickly give up or settle for something “close enough” when they don’t find the information they’re looking for.
Huge amounts of time are being wasted in searches void of the rigor of research. A very depressing view of the state of American students’ approach to Internet research comes from a recent op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal. Somehow, we do not think this problem is limited to the students admitted to Yale. The K-12 students we ask (and the majority of our doctoral students) confidently explain that they know how to use Google. The second driving force is the Common Core State Standards. 9 free apps for Common Core scaffolding. 9 free apps for Common Core scaffolding By Denise Skarbek, Melinda Carver, and Keya Mukherjee February 9th, 2015 Popplet can be used to build background knowledge or to help students remember and organize the textual information.
For example, Popplet can be used to help students connect the vocabulary terms being covered. Students can insert pictures and create a graphic organizer to illustrate connections and relationships between terms and ideas. Subtext. To help students increase their understanding of non-fiction information, the app Subtext could be used. For example, additional public domain texts (such as Project Gutenberg) are selected and pasted into the app. Story Buddy 2 Lite. Another app that students of all ages enjoy using is Smule Auto Rap.
Many free apps are available that can be used to scaffold instruction and help students to individually or collaboratively understand the rigorous more complex texts as a result of the implementation of the Common Core state standards.